برچسب مطالب ‘has-been’

Alireza Beiranvand, the goalkeeper of Iran national soccer team and Persepolis soccer club, has been nominated for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Player of the Year, Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.

“We were a group of 15 combatants returning from a training mission from one of the countries that supports the Palestinian resistance. When we arrived at Cairo airport, we were taken to an underground place. We were blindfolded, handcuffed, and transferred to a number of prisons.” This is a part of a testimony of a Palestinian resistance combatant who was arrested in Egyptian prisons and has been released recently.

As part of its efforts to nullify the effects of Washington’s increasingly hostile moves, Iran has been trying to expand ties with the neighboring countries. While the Iranian foreign minister is in Istanbul for tripartite talks with his Turkish and Azeri counterparts, Iran’s top military commander is set to hold high-ranking talks with the Azeri military officials.

While the United States has been trying to increase economic and political pressures on Iran, after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, Russia continues to signal its willingness for cooperating with the other remaining parties of the deal to keep it alive and to help Iran overcome the negative impacts of the US policies.

Iran’s initiative to launch a state-backed digital currency has reached its final stage of development. The draft of the project has been prepared at the behest of President Hassan Rouhani, local news outlet Financial Tribune reported on Saturday, citing a government official statement.

In the last few years, assertions pertaining to Turkey’s deteriorating relations with the West have been repeated so often by pundits and so-called Turkey experts that it seems that a boutique sector on the issue has been formed.

It has been a month now since Donald Trump’s indulgence in Helsinki of Vladimir Putin’s “extremely strong” denial of Russian involvement in hacking the 2016 U.S. election. With this move, the Presidential foot was placed at least on, if not quite over, a key red line.

The European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the EU is encouraging enterprises to increase their business with Iran, as that country has been compliant with their nuclear-related commitments.